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I occasionally leave a unicycle in the office. Today, Chad LaCroix gave it a go. While he wasn’t a natural, I wasn’t worried that he was going to fall right over and hurt himself!

On the other side of the office, we have people cutting donuts in half. We made sure to get photos because Josh Hunt finds it annoying that anybody would leave half a donut in the box. We have to have fun in the office!

Now that all of you know my birthday, I expect presents next year… Anyway, this day started off fantastic. Danelle told me not to leave for work till I talked to her. I was mildly concerned. I got ready slowly can came downstairs to her and the kids singing me happy birthday with my first ever homemade donut cake featuring Strange Donuts!

Then I packed up my supplies for the day. We were having a Chicken and Waffle day at work. That meant at 10:30am, I would go to the kitchen at work with a few others and start cooking for the office. Since its an office, we don’t always have everything a normal kitchen would have. But with creativity, we can re-fill a salt shaker from packets…

Anna Blaser refills the salt from packets.

We don’t have a stove, so we had a table with a few waffle irons and a fry daddy!

That large orange bowl is a quadruple of this Alton Brown waffle recipe, which turned out amazing! Here is a sample plate of the chicken and waffles.

Of course, no lunch would be complete without fried Twinkies! I seriously considered a second one it was so good!

Finished Twinkie!

With a perfect lunch to go with breakfast, I was ready for our weekly softball game. Honeys ‘N Badgers vs some other team lead by Kris Ninnis. The game was going well, but like always we were not winning. I had a ball hit right past me that gave me a scare. The other player apologized for such a close call. Being a nice guy, I said, “As long as you hit me in the head, I’ll be fine.” Two batters later, Nick did just that. There was a line drive right off the bat and it came up and hit me in the face.

The people in the outfield thought I caught the ball based on that satisfying smack the ball makes when it hits your glove just right. However, it was just the ball hitting my face. I didn’t fall down, but took a few steps back to evaluate my health. By the time I decided I was okay, many people had come out to the pitcher’s mound where I was standing. I was bleeding from the inside of my mouth. Somebody thought I lost a tooth, but it was just my bloody gum I was chewing which they insisted I spit out. I wanted to keep pitching and insisted that I was fine, but the other team decided it was worth two outs and promptly ended the inning.

We had one more at bat that went like all the others and the game was over. By this point, I knew that my face was going to HURT for a while. So I downed another beer to help and told Danelle she could drive home. And now, if you’re still reading, you can see the photos.

A selfie right after it happened. Still in enough shock that I didn’t know how bad it would hurt.

I’ve been unicycling since 2006. For some reason, I started doing it more this year and ended up with another unicycle. I brought it into the office and one of my co-workers, Dan Pavel, learned to ride over the course of a few weeks. Dan ended up purchasing his own, here are two more people, Daniel Ferguson, and Josh Hunt, giving it a go. I don’t think either of them are going to be pursuing riding.

My current employer wanted to make a promotion video. We took two days out of work to film around the office. The project had started as a hand help iPhone video and moved to a full production. It turns out that iPhones are great, but not the quality that we were looking for. Lucky for us, we had Mike to help out. Mike is into photography and had some seriously fancy equipment and more importantly, knowledge how to use the equipment.

Mike Cook, the photo genius!

Daniel hanging out

Josh making the video into something meaningful

Eric Ent

Christa and Anna moving furniture

Getting for the pre-lunch shoot

Reviewing our current progress

Jeff trying to ignore the mess and get is work done.

The video was an amazing change of pace for the office. We were not very productive for those two days, but it bonded us well. Below are two youtube videos. The first is the final product of all the work. The second will be a stop motion of the action around the filming.